One of the studies, published in the journal Nature Astronomy, shows that ice inside the parent asteroid melted and reacted ...

Learn how rock and dust samples are shedding light on the origins of Asteroid Bennu and the history of the early Solar System ...

Our solar system has a rocky asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, about 3 astronomical units from the Sun. (An astronomical unit equals the average Earth-Sun distance of 93 million miles.) ...

Astronomer and Pluto mission leader S. Alan Stern explores how the field has transformed during his decades-long career.

On September 3, scientists studying samples from the Bennu asteroid have discovered a variety of unusual materials, some of which existed even before the formation of the Sun. Three recent papers ...

The architecture of the solar system, including the asteroid belt and the Kuiper Belt, was determined by the processes that formed the planets, including how the young Jupiter migrated through the ...

The label " space rock " feels like an understatement for what NASA just observed. A rock is something you throw at a window ...

While there’s no direct evidence of extraterrestrial life on Ceres (or anyplace but Earth), a new study published in Science ...

Aliens may have been closer to Earth than first thought. New research from NASA reveals that Ceres, the dwarf planet in the ...

During the giant planet growth stage, it was pulled into the asteroid Belt as a migrant from the outer Solar System, and survived for 4.5 billion years until now,” Ribeiro de Sousa said.

The Asteroid Belt is a part of space between Mars and Jupiter. Find out more about the solar bodies that live in this region of space. Science Trek is available to stream on pbs.org and the free ...

Researchers from Tokyo Institute of Technology claim that analysis of Mars' composition supports the idea that it was originally formed in the asteroid belt, and then migrated to the inner solar ...